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Not being a politician, I don't know what would be worse in this situation, having to own up to that little bit of prejudice that lurks deep down inside every human being's subconscious or that I was really so ignorant and ill-read that I didn't know what that phrase referred to. pat c
Congresswoman apologizes for 'great white hope' comment 2009
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His only accomplishment, as far as I can see is that he was a celebrity, in the meaning remarked by the late Dan Boorstin, in his ground-breaking, and ill-read book of media criticism, The Image (1961), for which there there is but one criterion: Tim Russert was known mainly for being known.
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Si, N, I wouldn't bother spending too much time with these ill-read types (their posts suggest that Dershowitz, Phillips and Wikipedia are about as far as they appear to have got).
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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It is difficult to imagine what asset could be bought to the treasuries of a public theatre by a youth of three and twenty so ill-educated, so empty of experience and so ill-read as Ibsen was in 1851.
Henrik Ibsen 2008
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But "roundhead" had an amateurish and ill-read blog--until today.
Archive 2008-01-01 2008
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It is difficult to imagine what asset could be bought to the treasuries of a public theatre by a youth of three and twenty so ill-educated, so empty of experience and so ill-read as Ibsen was in 1851.
Henrik Ibsen 2008
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But "roundhead" had an amateurish and ill-read blog--until today.
Death of a troll 2008
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My confession is that I faked my way through school without reading what I should have read, and about midlife it caught up with me in the sense that I got fed up with my own ill-read life.
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Unfortunately, ill-informed and ill-read people are dishing out worn out judgments.
Leadership in philosophy is with Savitri Erans Tusar N Mohapatra 2007
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Unfortunately, ill-informed and ill-read people are dishing out worn out judgments.
Archive 2007-05-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2007
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